# I admire worker bees
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 27, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366 "2008-02-27T13:25:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/1 "2008-02-27T13:25:31Z")
Unlike the drones at where I work, worker bees actually accomplish something and help crop production with pollination, tirelessly scouring plants. And what do they get for it? A short and brutish life.
Queen bees, however, are lazy sluts.
What animals do you (anthropomorphically) admire?
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### Author:  [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/2 "2008-02-27T16:48:17Z")
Magpies, for their outfits and their swagger.
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### Author:  [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/3 "2008-02-27T16:53:31Z")
[QUOTE=guizot]
And what do they get for it?
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A [movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Movie)?
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/4 "2008-02-27T17:28:35Z")
Crows are adaptable and intelligent. They aren’t pretty, but they get the job done.
Pigeons and seagulls, in contrast, are just locust swarms of flying rats.
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### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/5 "2008-02-27T18:12:29Z")
I’ve always thought that otters seem to know how to have a good time.
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/6 "2008-02-27T18:23:49Z")
I like rats. Intelligent, resourceful, social. And the little buggers seem to like fun and play.
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### Author:  [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/7 "2008-02-27T19:13:51Z")
Cockroaches, because they can eat all the junk food they want without gaining an ounce, and stay up until all hours socializing. As near as I can tell, they don’t pay taxes, either.
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/8 "2008-02-28T02:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert]
A [movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Movie)?
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Which didn’t even get nominated by the academy.
Not that that means anything, though.
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### Author:  [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/9 "2008-02-28T08:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=guizot]
Unlike the drones at where I work, worker bees actually accomplish something and help crop production with pollination, tirelessly scouring plants. And what do they get for it? A short and brutish life.
Queen bees, however, are lazy sluts.
What animals do you (anthropomorphically) admire?
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I like bees too , but the pedant in me has to inform you that queens spend their entire existence laying eggs. (I'm not sure they even sleep). If she doesn't do that,either the workers supercede her or the beekeeper does a squish and replace.
Drones exist to get laid.
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### Author:  [@lynne-42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynne-42)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admire-worker-bees/439366/10 "2008-02-28T10:46:07Z")
Spiders - especially the orb weavers. Watch one weave a web and you’ll soon see why.